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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-03

Personal Misses Olive Ross, of
Franklin, Tenn, and BERTHE Mckenzie,
of Brady's, were guests OF Miss Belle
Wilderman a portion of this week.
Miss Maggie Elliott, who has been
visiting Miss Bessie Coyner, returned
to her home iu Westernport Monday.
Miss Emma Engleby, of Roanoke,
Va, is among Frostburg friends.
Mrs. DR.. Fl. J. Penrod, of Washing
ton, D. c., is the guest of Mrs. DR..
Jacobs, of this place.
DIR. D. P. Fitch is sojourntng among
Falrmont, W. Va, frieuds.
Mrs. George H. Haverstick and
Miss Blanche Larzelere, of Phila-
delphia, for several weeks guests of
Rev. A, C. HaAerstick, returned home
Monday.
BENJAMIN Thomas, in Western Penn
sylvania for some time past, has re-
turned to Frostburg.
"Misses Mollie and Lizzie Thomas" !"
SAYS the Cumberland Neaos of Wednes-
day, "arrived here yesterday on a visit
to the family Of DR.. G. j. Beachy."
O.D. Hartzell, of Pittsburg, arrived
in town this afternoon.
Miss Minnie j. Warden, of Davis,
w. Va, is guest of j. j. Keller's
family.
Miss Florence Burton is visiting
friends ir Keyser, w. Va.
The JOURNAL acknowledges a card
announcing the wedding of DeWarren
H. Reynolds. of Cumberland, and Miss
Sally A. White. of Wheeling, on the 1st
inst, and heartily congratulates the
happy pair. There is nothing in life
worth having and enjoying that we do
not invoke upon these, our friends.
The Schools. public schools of
the county will open next Monday.
In another column will be found the
advertisement of the opening of a
select grammar school by Lewis B.
Browne, jr., of Baltimore. He comes
so highly recommended from Annap-
oils, where he has taught, that we do
not doubt he will give his patrons
complete satisfaction. Prof. Hart
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-03

Marriage.-Mr. John McGee, of
Cumberland, and Miss Mamie J.
Mason, of this place, were married at
the brides home at IL o'clock Thurs
day forenoon, Rev. H. S. France of
ficiating. Thomas Dixon, of Iona
coming, and Miss Aggie X. Mason at
tended. Otherwise only the immediate
friends Of the pair were present. Dim
ner was served and departure for Cum
berland, their future home, followed
at 1912 p. m. The bride is a bright,
popular young lady, lately one of the
most efficient Of our teachers, and her
numerous friends rejoice over the fact
that in the alliance she has just made
the omens Of future happiness are
auspicious.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-03

man, of Baltimore City College, and
son-in-law of Judge Armstrong, of
this place, commends Mr.. Browne in
the highest terms. The latter was four
years a pupil in the college, hence
Prof. Hartman, himself conscientious
tutor, knows whereof he speaks.
1t is reported that the Allegany
county Academy will this year make
heavy incursions upon the attendance
at the public schools in Cumberland.
Unless, therefore, the latter have as
many limbs rs "granddaddy long
legs" they won't have anything TO
stand on in years time.
If this paragraph reaches the eye of
a parent who is tired and sick of the
stand-still or go-backward methods of
the public school, let him or her try
Mr.. Brownies grammar school, the first
session of which will begin Monday
morning at nine o'clock.
Reiigious.-Rev. Robert w. Con-
rade, of Baltimore, has received and
accepted call to the pastorate of the
German Lutheran church, this place.
Next week the convocatiop of such
clergy of western Maryland of the
Episcopal church as can attend will
meet in Frostburg for the transaction
of business. The order of exercises is
stated below:
Tuesday evening" at 7:3O, service and SER
mon. Rev. o. Ingle, Frederick, Md
Wednesday morning at 1870, service and
sermon. Rev. w. Mitchell, Hagerstown, Md
Wednesday evening, at 7:3O, service and
sermon. Rev. P. N. Meade, Cumberland, Md
Thursday morning, at 1890, service and
essay. REV. d. C, Loop, Adamstown, Pa
Thursday evening, at 7:30, service and short
addresses. Two clergymen present
In the afternoon the clergy will meet
for discussion and business. "All
wishing to attend these Services saith
the pastor, ''are invited"
Rev. Mr.. Whitaker, pastor of the
Presbyterian church, has concluded to
take his vacation in September, instead
OF October, as at first contemplated.
The Sunday school Sunday morning,
and Wednesday evening services will
be kept up by the elders of the church.
Rev. j. H. T. Gray, pastor, will
preach tomorrow Sunday at Dlcker-
son Chapel, A. NJ. E. Church, at 1890
a. m., and 1880 p. m. Communion
after evening preaching.
pany.-The Homecoming Barton coal
company has been incorporated with
H. Crawford Black, Lloyd Lowndes,
John Wilson, Owen Hitchins, John
Sheridan and A. E. Hltchins as direct
ors for the first year. The capital
stock is 100000, divided into 1000
shares of $l00 each. The company's
property consists of about 200 acres of
big vein coal land near Midlothian.
Development will begin at once. The
gentlemen named will be recognized
as enterprising and competent, and
the community will be assured of active
and profitable operations under their
management. 1t is probable Mr..
Black will be president, Owen Hitchins
superintendent and Mr.. Wilson treas
urer.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-03

THE Maryland republicans propose to util-
ize the opposition in Western Maryland to the
project to sell out the Chesapeake and Ohio
canal to the railroad people, and in their con-
vention adopted strong resolutions declaring
that
The deep-laid schemes of the managers of
the.democratic party for the destruction Of
the Chesapeake and Ohio canal and its re-
moval as a competitor with railroad monopoly
which are now nearing their consummation,
and will result in the impoverishment and
ruin of a large number of our fellow-citizens,
can only be thwarted by the defeat of
their candidates for the legislature, and the
best interests of the people of the whole
State demand that this should be done, and
that this great work of internal improvement
should be perpetuated as q waterway for the
transportation of the mineral and other
products of our western counties to tide-water.
The democratic managers may now find it
necessary to repudiate the 'deep-laid scheme,'
and thus allay the apprehensions of thesWest-
ern Marylanders.-Wa Washington Star.
And what it were well to do at all,
it were equally we'll to do quickly.
1t would have been far better, how
ever, to have nothing "to repudiate."
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-03
O. FROSTBURG, MD, SEPTEMBER 8, 1887.

tiles, the people suffer it as though it
were necessary evil.
A lawyer who traduces a citizen
before jury and in the hearing of
the public should be held as account
able for libel as anybody else.
But under the universal rule of
court which forblds client speak
ing except through his attorney, and
under that equally prevailing unwrit-
ten law which prohibits a lawyer
from prosecuting lawyer, unless he
Injuries the court or lawyer, it is
impossible to get case against a
lawyer in court, particularly libel
case.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-03
SPEAKING of labor laws the Iona
coming ReyieW SAYS:

coming RevieaU says:
Usually such laws are a legal curiosity and
the very acme of legal subterfuge. If legis-
lative bodies must cut, slash and amend laws
favorable to the interests Of the wageworkers
until they scarcely bear any resemblance to
the original, we hold that those to whom
such laws would be an advantage, should en-
force observance of the conditions that the
intent of the law indicate. If the semi-month-
ly pay law is not complete in itself, the intent
of the law is at least plain and unmistakable,
and the miners of Pennsylvania are perfectly
justified in enforcing the payment of wages
semi-monthly.
One of the hardest efforts of an
ordinary life is to write an obituary, or
letter of recommendation, so that
it Will blend truth and eulogy in one
homogeneous mass.
But above and beyond task so
difficult is the yet greater one of
drafting a bill which must, in the
very nature of things, enlist the art
of the demagogue and combine it
with some regard for the organic law.
Hence, it is 10 wonder that "usual-
ly such laws are legal curiosities and
the very acme of legal subterfuge." !"
They could be nothing else.
For obvious reasons, therefore, the
"intent" of a bill so framed and en-
acted into law could amount to no
more than the verbiage. The ",m-
tent" may be just as unconstitutional
as the text, and in all doubtful cases
it is likely to be more so.
Hence the caution with which all
conscientious jurists deal with ques-
tions involving legislative "intent."
In fact, the strict constructionist, the
safest of all administrators, is rarely
able to consider the matter of Sin
tent" at all.
1t is glorious thing for us all
that this is true. For if law in
tending to make newspaper publish
ers, for instance, pay their wage bills
semi-weekly were passed and en-
forced, it would catch some of us
short twice where we are now over
taken only once.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-03

The Morgantown New Dominion
quotes from can exchange" as fol-
lows:
Lawyers stand up in court houses, before
juries, in the presence of large audiences and
denounce men as liars, scoundrels, thieves
and perjured villains, and when court ad-
journs the men thus abused appear to harbor
no ill will against them. But let newspaper
family intimate that mans character is not
without blemish, and the editor has to con-
front horse pistol stand a libel suit, or at
least suffer what is supposed to be the great.
est of all mortifications-lose a subscriber
There are reasons for this.
The lawyer makes the laws.
The laws shield the courts, and
The court protects the lawyers.
The system has grown so old that,
like many other mossback deform.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-03

The above named gentlemen were
mustered in and the organization pei
fected by the election Of the officers
named below:
Comnander-James Goodwin.
S. Y. C.-Samuel S. Warwick.
J. Y. C--David D. Shearer.
0. D.-John Meek.
Quartermaster James Campbell.
O. G.-Alpheus H. burst.
Chdplain.-Peter Goodwin.
Surgeon.-George f. Owens.
p. Ar. X. Snyder.
S. M-Samuel Teeters.
@. S.-Charles Isentrout.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-03

1T appears that at the last session
of the Pennsylvania legislature an act
was passed providing for the pay
ment of wages semi-monthly, and the
law was to take effect August 1, 1887.
Some of the operators have complied,
or will do so others will not.
Evidently the Lonaconing Review
is in favor of making the latter class
"come to the scratch"
The JOURNAL does not care much
how business is done in Pennsylvania
so long as none of the troubles over
there are imported into this region.
But it is suspected that some such
question will be agitated here during
the coming legislature, in which event
it will be opposed as not only un-
necessary but unconstitutional.
In the first place, there is not a
class Of workingmen alive who are
better secured by law in getting their
pay than miners, and there is not a
coal region in the world where the
pay of the miners is more certain
and more prompt than here.
Hence, the miner is in no straits
either as to the security or the cer-
taintY of getting his money. If he
be provident man the monthly pay
is better for him than the semi
monthly. If he enjoys good credit
the latter will provide him with no
advantages he does not already own.
In the next place, such a law
should also secure and protect the coal
operator. 1t should reach out and
include the consumer, and make him
pay for his purchases every two
weeks, so that thereby the operator
would not default with his men.
Otherwise, the law would discrim-
mate in favor of one class of creditors
against another worthy of equal con
slderation. Thus fish would be made
Of one and fowl of the other-a policy
always unconstitutional, whether IN
law or out OF it.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-03

G.. A. R.-Hall Post was instituted at
Barton Saturday evening of last week.
The table below comprises list of the
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-03

"UNDER new ruling of the State
Board of Education," say the Cum
berland dailies, "successful teaching
has prominent part in grading GER
tifcates for the following year."
To impress this idea upon the
teachers is the main purpose Of TO-
days meeting in Cumberland.
After this is done, it would be
very interesting to learn how a
teacher, who has been by virtue of
success long retained in the service,
can be overlooked when there is
chance for promotion, and a new
man taken up and passed clean over
his head to one of the fat places pre-
sumed to be held in reserve for the
enjoyment of the veterans?
With no prejudice whatever to-
ward the gentlemanly beneficiary of
this exploit, the JOURNAL is bound
to record the notion that consistency
is sometimes a sugar plated jewel.
The examiner will preside over
meeting Of teachers in Cumberland
to-day when he he will "explain to
them," the Neacs says, "the present
years directory and give them
talk as to the requisites of successful
teaching. Under new ruling of the
State board successful teaching has
prominent part in grading certificates
for the following year."
All this reads we'll in print
But it is crying pity the "new
ruling" is not as old as the public
school system.
What is the use of successful
teaching" when it doesn't count?
Two or three school politicians in
this county can displace all the
successful teachers Mr.. Weimer can
develop in q hundred talks, and put
in their positions the most unsuc-
cessful.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-03
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

The Coal Trude.-The record of
shipments from the Georges Creek coal
region for the week ending Saturday,
August q, 1887, closed as follows:
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-06-25
P II A r M A @ Y!
Charles Reade and his Characters.

OF all modern authors probably tho
most singular in his mental attitude
toward the personages of his romances was
Charles Reade. In speaking Of the
characters he had drawn he always np-
peared unconscious of their artificial orr
gin, and referred TO them as II their reality
were an established fact. lie did not
recognize any particular connection be-
tween them and himself. ! have re-
peatedly heard him discuss the idiosyncra-
sizes of this or that member of his ideal
family in precisely the tone he would have
employed il they had been independent Of
him in every sense. When friend re-
marked upon what he supposed 10 be the
motives that impelled the heroine Of
Griffith Gaunt'' To certain course of
action, Reade exclaimed hastily and some
what warmly, 81 don't believe Kate
Gaunt ever thought of such a thingn
Then he became abstracted, and n few
minutes after added, ''It doesn't seem
credible that Kate Gaunt could be influ-
enced in that way; but, after all, who can
tellg'' Something was said to him about
the ingenuity of one of Mrs. Ryler's
schemes in the same novel. Yes
answered Reade, wasn't it clever? You
wouldn' imagine woman like Ryder mp
to dodge of that sort, Ryder had more
brains than people gave her credit for. y
There was no apparent recollection that
her cleverness, whatever it might have
been, was his own invention. In Love
Me Little, Love Me Long, il is related
that Lucy Fountain, when expecting to be
drowned by the upsetting of n pleasure
boat, whispered To David Dodd that If she
must die she would have something to say
TO him just before they went down. Reade
was asked what it was she intended TO tell
him. 'I don't know he replied, dream
lily; chow should / knowgn And, little
later, "What do you think she meant to
sayf Nothing important, perhaps. All,
well, Dodd may know; she probably told
him some time" There was not a par
ticle of affectation in this. Rcade was the
last man to attempt that kind of pretense,
and If he had attempted IL he could no
more have succeeded than he could have
flown to the moon. lie was the embodi-
ment of intellectual candor. Atlantic
Monthly
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-06-25
Honey ns Medicine.

Last year a French tourist, M. Gull
meth by name, paid II visit to Tasmania,
and being much Interested in its indige-
nous vegetation, examined the numerous
varieties of the eucalyptus which flourish
in that island His Investigations brought
him into contact with a small black bee,
which stores its honey in the 4. globulus.
He found that this honey emitted a strong
odor as of gum leaves Collecting some,
he carried it to Europe for the purpose of
having it analysed, and of ascertaining
whether it possessed any special qualities.
1t was carefully studied by NJ. Thomas
Caraman, a well known chemical analyst,
and lie Temps of February said that he
had discovered in the honey some interest
ing medicinal virtues. 1t exercises q
moderating influence on the action Of the
heart; it is antithermic-that is to say, it
lowers the temperature; it facilitates the
respiration, for it is anti-catarrhal; it is
febrifuge and parasticide and it has been
found e1ficacious in overcoming obstinate
cases OF bronchitis and even Of whooping
cough. 1t is almost unnecessary to add
that the various preparations Of eucalyp-
tus make an important figure in the
French phgrniacopnia, and It's therapeu-
tic value is far from being fully ascer-
tanned at the present time. e.---Chicago
Journal
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-06-25

The Porte is before the powers again
with brace of fresh requests, one being
for permission to issue loan of $25, 900, :
600 on the Egyptian and Cyprus tributes,
and the other that the powers will nomin-
ate some candidate for the Bulgarian
throne who viii be acceptable to the
Sobranje. Both requests are in the line
of chronic helplessness which has long
been associated with Turkey. The puzzle
in her finances Is how she constantly man
ages, when apparently beyond the bottom
of her cash and quite at the bottom of her
credit, to hunt up some new article of
value to pawn or Sc ne old one on which
an additional mortgage is possible. With
a billion dollars or SO of debt, on which
only fractional interest is paid, she was
able not long ago to pledge some of her
railways for money with which to buy
guns and ammunition. Now comes an
other device, and the wonder Is where it
Will all end. Perhaps she wiz begin soon
to sell out some of her islands or outlying
provinces If the powers will allow each
other to buy them.--New York Times
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-06-25
Hard to See the BAN.

/ am surprised that the public do not
know that 1t is difficult thing to see a
ball while facing the grand stand. The
other day q ball was batted ut Foutz
while he was pitching and he lodged it.
The crowd yelled "rats" and coward. -
The fact is, Dave could hardly see the ball,
not because it was necessarily swift, but be-
cause it was the same color as the grand
stand which he was facing. Nearly every
spectator has played ball only in an open
field where he had a horizon line, above
which the ball could easily be seen against
the sky. But In an inclosed field it is a
difficult matter to see ball well black
ened by use, in the infield, if it comes
from the dark grand stand. 1t is this
that causes so many of the mysterious
muffs aud misses which the public can see
no excuse for.-Basebau Player in
Globe-D Democrat.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-06-25
ANNAPOLIS. ND, SATURDAY EVENING JUNE 25, 1887.
RECALL.

love me, or am slain.r 1 cried, and meant
Bitterly true each word. Nights, morns, slipped
by,
Moons, circling suns, yet stil alive ami;
But shame TO me, If my best time be spent
On this pcrverse, blind pass5onl Are we sent
Upon planet just 10 mate and die.
man no more than some pale butterfly
That yields his day 10 natures sole intentY
Or is my life but Marguerite's OK eyed flower.
That should stand and pluck and fling away,
One after one, the petals OF each hour
Like love dreamy girl, and only say,
Loves me, and ''loves me not, and "loves mey'
Nayt
Let the mans mind awake 20 manhood's power
Andrew Hedbrooke in the Atlantic
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-06-25
cuTTlNe GARMENTS EoR MEN.
How Ready Made Clothing Is Made to
Fit the Average Customer.

How Ready Made Clothing Is Made to
Fit the Average Customer.
Every man of well proportioned figure
can go into ready made clothing estab-
lishment and purchase suit that will fit
him tolerably well for very little money.
There was n time when the prices were
not so reasonable and the fit OF the gar
ments not so satisfactory. The ready
made business has been carried to de-
gree of perfection during the past few
years thar has made hanl1rupts of many
custom tQslQrs. Deductions have been
drawn from experience, experiments have
been tried, and the human figure has
been so carefully studied, that aA average
measurement has been established where
by nine out Of every ten men can be fitted
to their satisfaction.
4he system Of cutting garments adopted
oy the leading establishments is known as
the progressive method" 1t starts from
the chest measurement and works accord
ing to law Of progression. Ii has been
proved that the figure Of a well built man
can be fitted from the chest measurement
alone-in other words, a man who meas
ures Al inches across the chest will, if
nature has endowed him with perfect
form, measure 20 3-4 inches across the
shoulders and % 3-4 inches at the shoulder
blade. These are the fundamental meas
uFements OF tailors, for if n coat fits
snugly at the shoulders other considera-
tions are, with most men, of small inn
portance. If a man measures 40 or 43
inches across the chest the other proper
tions increase progressively three-fourths
of an inch around the shoulders and one
half an inch at the shoulder blade for every
additional inch of chest measurement
The trousers are a secondary matter
They are made of all sizes, to suit long
and short legged men alike,
OF course many men cannot be fitted
well in ready made garments They are
made for the average figure, and not for
the peculiar build of badly formed men.
The progressive method has proved so
successful that even custom tailors have
adopted the chest measurement to start
from making other notifications in the
cut of the garments afterward to suit the
proportions of their patrons Some tailors
advertise by circulars TO make perfectly
fitting garments from the measurement OF
the chest alone. New York Mail and
Express.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-06-25
Cirded Their Loins and sliunel.

How is tho work progressing IN Da-
kotaf" asked a Boston minister of good
brother who lives in Dakota at the Baptist
anniversaries the other day.
'Well, | am getting along pretty well,
but still it's rather discouraging, " replied
the Dakota man with an air Of despond-
ency.
isn't there any religious interest out
there2 Can't you awaken it, Or won't
they come to churchg''
''No. 1t isn't TINT. The first week /
went there ] had big congregations. One
day there were $50 down ON their knees
weeping and rF-~ing. A man cnme in
ard said there " two detectives coming
down the road / every blessed persoa
got up and skipped. Minneapolis Jour
nal.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-06-25
Bootblacks Give Rain Checks.

A reporter dropped into prominent
hotel TO have his boots polished. The
weather was decidedly threatening at the
time, and rs he left the chair he said:
1T is almost certain to rain, and ! shall
lose my elegant ten cent shine"
"Oh, We'll fix that all right said the
frescoer. .I'l give you a rain check, and
If you lose your shine come back this
afternoon and viii give you another
Detroit Free Press.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-06-25
ON the Safe side.

Hell see that between sixty and one
hundred persons in different parts Of the
country have been poisoned by ice cream.
She turning pale)--Did any Of them die,
George?
He-N-no; but some OF them were very
sick
She color slowly coming backbone
cannot be too careful, George, where one
eats ice cream. Hereafter let Us stick to
Deln1onico's. -Harper's Bazaar.